New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (MEETINGS) REGULATION 1999

- Made under the Local Government Act 1993
- As at 31 August 2004
- Reg 461 of 1999

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Regulation
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Definitions
   4.      Notes

   PART 2 - CONVENING OF, AND ATTENDANCE AT, COUNCIL MEETINGS

   5.      Notice of meetings
   6.      What happens when a quorum is not present
   7.      Minister to convene meetings in certain cases
   8.      Presence at council meetings

   PART 3 - PROCEDURE FOR THE CONDUCT OF COUNCIL MEETINGS

   9.      Councillor to be elected to preside at certain meetings
   10.     Chairperson to have precedence
   11.     Chairperson’s duty with respect to motions
   12.     Order of business
   13.     Agenda and business papers for council meetings
   14.     Giving notice of business
   15.     Agenda for extraordinary meetings
   16.     Official minutes
   17.     Report of a Departmental representative to be tabled at council meeting
   18.     Notice of motion—absence of mover
   19.     Motions to be seconded
   20.     How subsequent amendments may be moved
   21.     Motions of dissent
   22.     Questions may be put to councillors and council employees
   23.     Limitation as to number of speeches
   24.     Voting at council meetings
   25.     Representations by members of the public—closure of part of meeting
   26.     Resolutions passed at closed meetings to be made public
   27.     Matters to be included in minutes of council meeting

   PART 4 - KEEPING ORDER AT MEETINGS

   28.     Questions of order
   29.     Acts of disorder
   30.     How disorder at a meeting may be dealt with
   31.     Power to remove persons from meeting after expulsion

   PART 5 - COUNCIL COMMITTEES

   32.     Committee of the whole
   33.     Council may establish committees
   34.     Functions of committees
   35.     Notice of committee meetings to be given
   36.     Non-members entitled to attend committee meetings
   37.     Representations by members of the public—closure of part of meeting
   38.     Procedure in committees
   39.     Committees to keep minutes
   40.     Chairperson and deputy chairperson of committees
   41.     Absence from committee meetings
   42.     Reports of committees
   43.     Disorder in committee meetings
   44.     Certain persons may be expelled from council committee meetings

   PART 6 - MISCELLANEOUS

   45.     Disclosure and misuse of information—prescribed circumstances
   46.     Inspection of the minutes of a council or committee
   47.     Tape recording of meeting of council or committee prohibited without permission
   48.     Council seal
   49.     Repeal